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[00:09:45] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─Its a commercial off the shelf [microfocus.com] product for pete sake! ArcSight is also widely used in the private sector.
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─Seems like YAE of the benefits of Open Source!!!
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─I don't have an issue with that idea at all. However, OSSIM (an open-source competitor) has some significant shortcomings compared with its commercial competitors. Well, except that it's open source, which makes up for quite a bit, IMHO.
[00:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank Catalogs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Violations - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:24] <exec> 08└─The above post together with its moderation very neatly sums up everything that is wrong with the late great United States of America. Let's not expose the real problem, let's all just shove our heads in the ground (or up our asses) and pretend there is no problem. Anyone who points out there is a p...
[00:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:27] <exec> 08└─Does anyone remember the pre-9-11 Evil Bert meme, and the picture of him and Osama bin Laden? No? Bueller?
[00:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:10] <exec> 08└─People wonder how fake news spreads? THIS is how! We need stronger algorithms, or better yet, just omit those crazy nut websites from Google altogether.
[00:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:11] <exec> 08└─Here's to hoping to an idiot-free future (fingers super crossed).
[00:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:13] <exec> 08└─No. An-archy: From the Greek for "without rulers", is a governmental form with the decisions being made as close as is possible to those whom those decisions will affect. On the political palate, this charts at the far edge from Authoritarianism and is sometimes labeled "Libertarianism". The word yo...
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[00:12:15] <exec> 08└─Clicked 1 comment too low. Please do forgive my clumsiness. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not promoting vigilantism or anarchy. Merely pointing out that police generally try to pin whatever they can on the easiest target they can find. If you talk to the police, you become an easy target. That's not to say you shouldn't call emergency services if there's, say, an emergency. But way t...
[00:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:20] <exec> 08└─You are forgiven. However, you really should watch the video. I think you'll find it eye-opening.
[00:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:37] <exec> 08└─Made with C4 or rail guns? communism [...] chairs [...] the hard work of American craters It's worth noting that even before the USA existed, American craftsman in Socialist communities were making that stuff. [google.com] It was highly valued for its quality then and still is, hundreds of years lat...
[00:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:30] <exec> 08└─There's more than one approach that particular cat-skinning. For example, I'm also in AI, but from the other direction - cognitive psych and computer science combined. The question of whether neural nets can approximate functions is, as you say, a solved one. The one that we're wrestling with is _wh...
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[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:27] <exec> 08└─"Revered for his gift-giving and aid to the poor, the 4th-century saint gave rise to the legend of Santa Claus." Nope. He may have been guilty of many things but Satan Claws is not his fault. That beast was created by Madison Avenue, not by some long-dead Armenian.
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─Geez, they even mentioned it in the last sentence.
[01:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Insights Into How Sleep Helps the Brain to Reorganize Itself - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─"Sorry honey - I've got a big test tomorrow. You don't mind 'Chaos and Fractals', do you?"
[01:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank Catalogs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Violations - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:28] <exec> 08└─When there's a tie in the Senate, @VP Pence gets to vote. As he did for Betsy and for the Planned Parenthood thing. Terrific system! 🇺🇸
[01:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:19] <exec> 08└─Google is already censoring. The thing is that what they are censoring are some the more reliable, fact-based sites. Previous submissions: Evidence of Google's Blacklisting of Left, Progressive, and Anti-War Sites Mounts [soylentnews.org] Google's Blacklisting (addendum) [soylentnews.org] The veraci...
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[01:12:20] <exec> 08└─If you want accurate predictions in the future, it would be wise to check with the guy who has been correct 9 times in a row: Allan Lichtman [google.com] All of your examples are weak--easily negated by 1 instance. Seriously, this was the best that you could do? ...and, as I've said before, if you w...
[01:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 2526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:28] <exec> 08└─My point is that we see these dynamics, but that doesn't mean that the quantum world does. Perhaps, there is just as many states in past as future, but we only observe a fraction of that past which happens to have low entropy and a fraction of the future which has higher entropy. For an analogue,...
[01:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:30] <exec> 08└─Thats kinda out of context in that the title "not even wrong" is a dog whistle to the famous physics blog and your specific question is I believe the last FAQ on http://www.math.columbia.edu [columbia.edu]
[01:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:34] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that I've gotten ahead of myself? At some point in time, that two year old had never seen or tasted a hot dog. He had no desire for a hot dog, UNTIL he was given one, and he discovered that it filled him, while pleasing his taste buds. That was the point at which the toddler developed a...
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[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─I've heard lotsa Santa origin stories of the past 40-50 years, but never heard of this guy.
[02:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─Actually yes, he was from a wealthy family and as a pastor gave away much of his inheritance to the poor. Particularly to poor girls who otherwise without a dowry would have likely become prostitutes. Here's a great post about St Nicholas, including how we end up with "Santa Claus" from that name: h...
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─You appear to have badly misunderstood my post. You might want to re-read it. In no way did I dispute the reality of your historical "Saint Nicholas." I simply exonerated him of responsibility for the modern Santa Claus, a marketing invention cloaked (very) thinly in what amounts to a parody of the...
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─He's quite well known in that "Early Church father who did some nice things, we think, let's make him a saint" sort of way. Sinterklaas is a Dutch tradition based on him, and Santa Claus comes from that. The whole saint business seems pretty weird to me. I wonder if the early church was so keen to...
[02:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:00] <exec> 08└─First it says: ability to squeeze into small spaces can be put to use serving humans.
[02:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:08] <exec> 08└─It's almost like security by obscurity becomes a complete liability once the obscurity is removed.
[02:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:33] <exec> 08└─It means google will have to do something it has been pretty bad at up until now. End user support. When you own the servers you can control everything and you can detect things. Hand something to thousands of end users and everything will go sideways. They will need to become good at that. MS and A...
[02:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:35] <exec> 08└─looks like some sort of sleazy spycam to me. No thanks.
[02:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Insights Into How Sleep Helps the Brain to Reorganize Itself - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:46] <exec> 08└─Make sense -- when you sleep your brain may have a different rhythm of waves and then some neurons respond differently to the rhythms. Neat!
[02:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:44] <exec> 08└─No, clearly the problem is that it was piping into a regular bash, not a sudo'd bash for guaranteed root access! ;)
[02:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:45] <exec> 08└─The idea of types is itself an abstraction. In reality there is only one type: binary. That's what the computer deals with. The only difference between these bits and those bits is how they are interpreted. Humans have to decide how the bits should be interpreted. But that would require them to thin...
[02:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:53] <exec> 08└─With media consolidation (Thanks, Ronnie Raygun and Slick Willie), it's increasingly difficult within the realm of Lamestream Media. Some places have -only- 1 megacorporation's "news" outlets from which to chose. I find that places which vet the various sources then report a bit later do a better jo...
[02:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:54] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm means no obligation to use "scare quotes". Unfortunately, "funny" is just as optional.
[02:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:56] <exec> 08└─Expecting consistency from a news outlet is like expecting toilet paper from a tree.
[02:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:58] <exec> 08└─You really are that retarded aren't you? You are trusting a "media fact check" site that flags Wikileaks as RIGHT-CENTER BIASED (caps in original) and passes on World Socialist, Media Matters, Common Dreams and the rest of your commie go-to news sources with only a passing note that they have an opi...
[02:13:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─Given that this "philosophical framework" isn't falsifiable, it isn't science. At best, it's metaphysics. It's a nice bedtime story to read to your kids, but not much more than that.
[02:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:09] <exec> 08└─How does it feel to want?
[02:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:10] <exec> 08└─Sure, but it's a question of whose mental activity it is. If you step into the transporter beam and it produces a perfect physical copy of your body and brain, including all neural and synaptic patterns, thoughts and memories, whilst leaving the original non-copied you still alive for a few seconds,...
[02:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:12] <exec> 08└─How is this different from the many worlds hypothesis? Ideas of multiverses existing have long been proposed as a solution to quantum mechanics (the universe is constantly bifurcating at every choice point and all possibilities happen, even if a consciousness might or might not only follow one branc...
[02:15:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lemming [1053] 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:12] <exec> 08└─This is a dual core ARM with open source emulator VICE [sourceforge.net] running on it, in a fancy case with a fake keyboard. An important point of criticism is that it seems you can not load any other software outside of the 64 games provided. There are no indications that you can read disk images...
[02:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:17] <exec> 08└─... because the C64 doesn't have a 6502 CPU, it's a 6510. IIRC the 6510 adds an 8-bit I/O port, adds a couple opcodes, and modifies a few opcodes. Again IIRC the 6510 should run all 6502 code just fine, unmodified, while the reverse won't be true.
[02:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:17] <exec> 08└─One set of experiments (some years back) attempted to work out what stimuli were getting through to newborns. The researchers worked in hospitals and asked parents if they could to borrow newborns for a few minutes at a time. Then ran them through some very clever experiments. All recorded in an int...
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[03:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:33] <exec> 08└─This has about as much practical application as the debate over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If you want to go with the Reality is a Computer theory, there's nothing stopping you from pretending it's a magical super computer that's really, really, really fast.
[03:09:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─I think that it is an interesting thought experiment; and, to theologians, I can see why they might find whether a finite or infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin interesting as well. However, an important part of this result, which appears to have been left out of the summary, is...
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:37] <exec> 08└─But not only is it fast, it's also goes without saying that it's not running Windows.
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that. There seems to be a lot of BSODs lately, N.K. being the biggest BSOD of them all.
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─Or that God exists!
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─It must be running on a massive quantum computer. Messages from $god are just hackers fuzzing various processes to affect the computer's output.
[03:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─"The whole saint business seems pretty weird to me. I wonder if the early church was so keen to convert pagans (in the period before they started killing everyone who didn't get baptised) that they just let them keep a few of their old gods, and just called them "saints"" Yes, in fact, that's exactl...
[03:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:05] <exec> 08└─Of course not, the emperor is!
[03:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:59] <exec> 08└─As should the tabloid rags, etc... who makes those calls?
[03:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:01] <exec> 08└─It's clear that you didn't actually click a single one of the links. ...but you did give your uninformed opinion of what those pages said, assuming that I had quoted them in full. Nitwit. you give off a dangerous loon vibe Keep posting. You're good for a laugh now and then. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylen...
[03:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:13] <exec> 08└─Also, seems improbable that not a single photon would get lost between the satellite and ground stations...
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[04:09:39] <exec> 08└─Either that or it doesn't work because there is no grand unified theory yet. I'm with GP. I don't get WTF is up with this "universe is a simulation!" crap. Let's say for the sake of argument that, fine, it is a fucking computer simulation. So. What. Seriously? So what? How does that help? Are these...
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[04:09:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482 [scottaaronson.com]
[04:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─You're right, but just to be contrary I will point out that this works much better as a proof that the scenario in "the Matrix' cannot be correct than it does if judged against a broader range of somewhat similar scenarios. In 'the Matrix' the story as I recall it was an alternate history earth that...
[04:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:45] <exec> 08└─Skimming through the paper it does not seem that it is a formal proof that P (the set of all decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time) is not equal to BQP (the set of all decision problems solvable by a bounded error quantum computer in polynomial time). All kn...
[04:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─I once claimed, in an English paper, that the uncertainty principle implied that, if we were a simulation, then it must be at least in an aleph-null dimension universe. I had no particular reason to say that, but it sounded plausible. The important thing is to know your audience: The professor ate i...
[04:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:59] <exec> 08└─If you think THAT was a cut and paste job, go look up Saint Josaphat, the "renouncer." Indian saint who gave up his riches and family and birthright to pursue holiness. If you said that sounds like Sakyamuni Buddha, well, you'd be right. Exactly right.
[04:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Can anyone think of a task you've done|contemplated where ants would be useful helpers? ...and let me be the first to say it: Just what I always wanted: More effective ants. 8-( ...though the mission-specific wasp assassins mentioned by PartTimeZombie sound cool. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews...
[04:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:54] <exec> 08└─Yes! I had to use LISA on an Apple II. Worked great! Better than trying to type the opcodes and data by hand in the mini-assembler!
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[05:09:30] <exec> 08└─Now I will never be able to get my Millennial not astronaut person out of the house, ever. Guess it is time for me to go to Mars. Radiation is no biggie, if you never will ever use your gonads again.
[05:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─You can build redstone computers in Minecraft. Can you run Minecraft on one? Perhaps the parent universe has finer grained detail than ours permitting far more powerful computers.
[05:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:51] <exec> 08└─the reason people want to know if its a simulation or not is mostly about religion. no religion (that I'm aware of) has ever proposed such a thing. if we 'find out' that we really are in a simulation, there goes the whole 'god idea'. there goes, also, the whole idea of natural laws. you could create...
[05:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─"The Ricks Must Be Crazy" just popped into my head--the battery with a universe in it with a battery with a universe in it... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:55] <exec> 08└─The religious can simply quibble about what "simulation" means, or what a "computer" means. It's dumb people with intellectual/science pretension that keep on harping on bullshit like this. And the phds with no chops to do any real research, churning out garbage papers.
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:57] <exec> 08└─Huh? The universe of human experience in every religion is a planned, created, executed at will 'Simulation'. Constructed. Made. A mechanical universe is the only other answer, so, I agree this is about religion is a philosophical sense - but the simulation freaks are closer to the side of religion...
[05:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:30] <exec> 08└─Don't the latest discoveries in the application of entropy to time reversal prove that the inexorable move to disorganization forces the arrow of time forwards? Honestly curious - and I can dig up the articles if your're interested.
[05:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:32] <exec> 08└─Yes. The internal relativistic map can only be created in terms of the individual experience. That is the result of having individuality and a unique point of view.
[05:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:34] <exec> 08└─Feynman used the many worlds to solve a mathematical problem. If you read the paper you would quickly see the improvement.
[05:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:36] <exec> 08└─Didn,t you see how this simplifies the interpretation of the data?
[05:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:41] <exec> 08└─If floppy drive emulation isn't faithful, many games and demos just wouldn't work. Speeding up 1541 is just a matter of software, not hardware. I haven't encountered 6502 bug that you described in many emulators that I tried that emulate machines with 6502. All that I tried emulate 6502 correctly, i...
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[06:09:47] <exec> 08└─Radiation is no biggie, if you never will ever use your gonads again.
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─Don't trust a guy named Zohar [wikipedia.org] which is "is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah" It's not science is Kabbalah!
[06:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:12] <exec> 08└─Umm... why does the whole 'god idea' have to go away if we do prove it is a simulation. It could just mean that whoever created that simulation is god (are the gods). It could mean a different religion or a change in how one interprets their religion - of course in some conservative ones their head...
[06:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:14] <exec> 08└─if we 'find out' that we really are in a simulation, there goes the whole 'god idea'
[06:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:17] <exec> 08└─Couldn't God just be a programmer?
[06:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:19] <exec> 08└─First off, if we are in a simulation there is no reason to believe the laws of physics being modeled are exactly the same as the ones that hold in the "outside" universe hosting the simulation hardware. What if our purpose is to determine what sorts of different physics can still result in life? Who...
[06:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:21] <exec> 08└─If we live in a simulation, odds are it isn't perfectly emulating every particle. It is likely to be approximating things to cut costs. Understand the system, find flaws. Might not be able to break out to the outside but perhaps can hack it? It would mean there are the official laws of physics and t...
[06:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:57] <exec> 08└─No. The problem is that you can create an enormous number of such maps and they are all equally valid. Thus, there is no unique sense in which you can experience redness exactly from another person's point of view. In particular, experiencing sensations as you normally do, is just as valid as any ot...
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[06:16:05] <exec> 08└─As I recall, it was an emulator that ran only on Windows, called AppleWin appropriately enough. A hack I used in Ultima III to create more powerful characters was to exceed the maximum values of 99 allowed for str, int, wis, and dex by editing the character data on the disk to set them to 0xFF. It d...
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[07:09:27] <exec> 08└─No.
[07:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:05] <exec> 08└─It would expand our universe, as there would/should? be something outside the simulation.
[07:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:07] <exec> 08└─It could just as well be that quantum mechanics is a vast simplification of the laws of the universe of the computer. Because a full simulation of that universe's law would be intractable for a computer in that universe.
[07:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:09] <exec> 08└─> If the simulation is aimed at US I really didn't expect American Exceptionalism to pop up under this TFA.
[07:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:11] <exec> 08└─Which type of computers are we being simulated on?
[07:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:25] <exec> 08└─The Dutch tradition goes back at least to around 1665: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (great painter BTW, his work is pretty funny and there is a lot to discover in his paintings). Not sure if there are older, reliable sources.
[07:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:49] <exec> 08└─I thought that was exactly what I said. any realistic multi-particle system will have a "forward in time" direction, because part of phase space is more likely to be visited than other parts.
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[08:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:31] <exec> 08└─not true. when the sun burns out, the earth (including said dinosaurs) will have been burned as well. so the dinosaurs will burn out together with the sun. so there.
[08:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah the communists are trying to make their pet "scientific theory" sound like it is producing anything other than giant bills for the tax payer to subsidise. Every non-communist study proves this.
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:41] <exec> 08└─Drip, drip, drip. And, No Comment? Just a question, for the three Soylents left.
[08:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:43] <exec> 08└─And, No Comment? Just a question, for the three Soylents left.
[08:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:45] <exec> 08└─Just as I thought. If only I had an iota to refudiate this going rouge by Young Refuglicans!
[08:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:47] <exec> 08└─Researchers overrating their findings. Meteorites coming down at the right moment might have been a necessary conditions for life. But so have been many other events. Such as comets coming down and contributing the water that formed the "warm ponds" in the first place. Of course, the whole exercise...
[08:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:50] <exec> 08└─Unlikely.. Apart from his ability to type, DN is more likely a leftover sample of the original pond slime (spontaneous local generation, or interplantary hitchhiker). Wasn't there an article in the last few months about spontaneous amino acid/RNA creation in lab-version early Earth water?
[08:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to Continue Stay at the International Space Station - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:59] <exec> 08└─Inflatable housing? Are we not supposed to build stone pyramids when we get to Mars?
[08:10:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03manywele [5969] 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482 [scottaaronson.com]
[08:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:33] <exec> 08└─US as in Earth, humans. Doubt they simulating a world to study bears.
[08:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:35] <exec> 08└─I just skimmed through the actual scientific article, and it doesn't speak at all about our universe possibly being simulated by whatever type of computer. Just about the ability to simulate local parts of our universe on computers. While not explicitly stated, it seems obvious that they mean comput...
[08:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:50] <exec> 08└─There have been lots of influences. The flying reindeer and the chariot^W sleigh go back to Norse gods. The tubby guy with the beard came from Clement Moore in 1822 when he wrote "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" for his kids. Thomas Nast (the donkey and elephant guy) did black & white sketches in the 1...
[08:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:52] <exec> 08└─I would be careful admitting to how much you do not know around here. It attracts sharks. The can smell the ignorance in the water.
[08:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:54] <exec> 08└─It goes way back further, a version existed even before Christianity: . As happened everywhere, when christened, the locals molded their original gods and ghosts to fit into their new religion. That becomes very clear if you visit different countries, in many places people still fear ancient local w...
[08:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:48] <exec> 08└─NASM? How dare you. The most of a tool you should use is xxd! :-)
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[08:13:08] <exec> 08└─Sending a Jedi sympathiser to the Dagobah system.
[08:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:22] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is if you do the same argument backwards (that is, given the current state, what was the state in the past), then you get that up to now, the entropy most likely decreased. Which is exactly because the fundamental equations are time reversible. Well, until you get to quantum field th...
[08:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:24] <exec> 08└─Note that this also works if you don't give the wave function ontological status, but consider it just a description of knowledge. If we know that the light is either on or of, it doesn't follow that we either know that the light is on, or know that the light is off. This holds without any speculati...
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[09:09:32] <exec> 08└─...the electric supply is 100% solar.
[09:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:46] <exec> 08└─PVLVIS ERIS ET IN PVLVEREM REVERTERIS
[09:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:31] <exec> 08└─"Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars, and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intel...
[09:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:33] <exec> 08└─chess piece who has become self aware* discovers that the chess player cannot be a chess piece itself as it needs some appendage to pick pieces up. Interesting but not that much. What meatbags discussing these things tend to forget about this> the rules of the 'simulation' (it is not a simulation, i...
[09:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:35] <exec> 08└─> no religion (that I'm aware of) has ever proposed such a thing. you did not read Genesis 1:1? What atheism says the creator is a mere mechanical (even if operating with quantum randomness) machine or not present at all, religions says it is aware and loving/judging/dominating, masons and sects say...
[09:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:47] <exec> 08└─"well-established built-in functions" But, without actual proof that these WEBIFs are correct, you're still (theorically) building on quicksand. Curious: Does MATLAB or Octave with such a formal proof of correctness?
[09:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:23] <exec> 08└─The only way we really can do it is by mapping external perceptions of one person to the corresponding external perceptions of another. And at that point, red is red and so on.
[09:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:24] <exec> 08└─and your specific question is I believe the last FAQ on [URL]
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[09:15:26] <exec> 08└─The wavefunction never collapses.
[09:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:28] <exec> 08└─It's simulations all the way down.
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[09:15:52] <exec> 08└─https://doi.org/10.1001%2Fjama.1933.02740440032009 [doi.org] "In low, or therapeutic, doses, the metabolism may be increased 50 per cent or more over considerable periods of time without unpleasant symptoms or toxicity."
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[10:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:46] <exec> 08└─Solar power will only work until the sun burns out, but dinosaurs are forever. Thank you, sir :) I'd mod your article funny +1.
[10:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:48] <exec> 08└─... and it makes me wonder why I still go there - the number of people there who didn't know what "PV" meant in this context was disappointing.
[10:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:50] <exec> 08└─That is, unless humans (or another intelligent species that evolves later) eventually leave earth (when the sun starts to make the planet uninhabitable, there will be strong incentive to do so) and take dinosaurs with them (in order to preserve as much of their and their home planet's history as pos...
[10:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:52] <exec> 08└─I can't seem to find any figures about in what sense PV beat the others. Is it hidden behind js? (I did find the generic "renewables" but that is a lot bigger than only PV and also useless since there is a lot of difference between 1GW of solar and 1GW of run-of-the-river hydro and 1GW of dam hydro)...
[10:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:54] <exec> 08└─Citation/s, please.
[10:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:09] <exec> 08└─A more relevant exercise would be to state a sufficient condition, which more likely than not would show that there are no necessary conditions.
[10:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:10] <exec> 08└─Why do you need meteorites? Isn't the earth just a large ball of the same components that meteorites are made of? What is so special about meteors that earth would not have?
[10:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:12] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there an article in the last few months about spontaneous amino acid/RNA creation in lab-version early Earth water?
[10:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:15] <exec> 08└─At the least, meteors/comets delivered metals into the Earth's crust as well as water.
[10:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:17] <exec> 08└─n't the earth just a large ball of the same components that meteorites are made of?
[10:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:04] <exec> 08└─And the notion of 'classical computing' is related to the physical laws of our universe, so (without reading the paper) this result just tells us that either we're not simulated, we're simulated on a quantum computer, or we're simulated on a computer that has different laws of physics to ours. Withi...
[10:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:32] <exec> 08└─I, For One, Welcome Our New Robotic Insect Overlords
[10:12:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:06] <exec> 08└─looks like some sort of sleazy spycam to me. No thanks.
[10:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:07] <exec> 08└─Well my first thought on reading about the new Pixel phones, is the eSim for those on Fi. In principle, that free's up the SIM slot for external storage,no?
[10:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 2955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:22] <exec> 08└─If you're asking about how to generate proofs then maybe this is useful. Here's what I understand about the "set of support" strategy for automated theorem proving: To start off you have two things. A goal statement that want to prove/disprove, and a "set of support" which starts out as _the set of...
[10:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:02] <exec> 08└─Interpretation of QM are suppose to help understand some deeper meaning in the theory.
[10:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:12] <exec> 08└─Shiny. Now all I need is to find a tape player somewhere. I think I saw a walkman in one of my boxes of obsolete tech when I moved...
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[11:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:30] <exec> 08└─> It says the order was issued to prevent a lapse in identity checks Couldn't the government just find the database on the darkweb or wherever and do the checks themselves?
[11:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:32] <exec> 08└─Not for usage in courts of law, that would be useless, easily disputed.
[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─These pairs were found by choosing merged galaxies for observation. Perhaps the same technique can be used to retroactively identify candidate galaxies where LIGO and Virgo have detected gravitational waves. At this point detecting the direction of the black hole mergers only just became possible, a...
[11:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─Our summary defined PV as photovoltaics, theirs didn't. I only glanced at the comments but it seems you are making a mountain out of this molehill [slashdot.org].
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─(Also - did find the even more useless "grew by 50%" (50% of what?))
[11:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:58] <exec> 08└─Well, probably he considers all studies as communist, therefore the set of "all non-communist studies" in his sense is empty, so that all statements about its elements are vacuously true.
[11:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:01] <exec> 08└─Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles is in Rancho Palos Verdes. And it beats all other golf courses on the west coast. But they mean the solar panels. Which are growing tremendously, and will continue to grow as work on the WALL which is already under construction in the form of new renovation of ol...
[11:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:03] <exec> 08└─Funnily they did not reference which growth parameter. Also - just in case your post wasn't intended as funny as I perceived it to be - 50% of an unknown is still unknown even if you know the meta-value.
[11:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 3628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:25] <exec> 08└─Assuming that you're not trolling, allow me to give you a counterpoint: Type theory is one way of encoding constraints. Most mainstream programming languages have restrictive type systems that don't allow you to encode various things that are generally useful. In a fully dynamically typed language,...
[11:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:27] <exec> 08└─From every set of axioms, there's an infinite number of things that you can prove. A lot of automated proof systems begin with something like Natural Deduction [wikipedia.org]. In this model, you have a small number of incremental proof steps that you use to get from axioms to results (each individu...
[11:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:29] <exec> 08└─One of the projects that I'm involved in is a mix of systems and theory people. It's always fun whenever one of the theory people says something involving Coq (for example 'he has a big Coq proof', or 'my Coq is broken at the moment', or 'this needs a lot of coq') watching the systems people trying...
[11:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:01] <exec> 08└─4k is frivolous bullshit
[11:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:10] <exec> 08└─The answer out is that human consciousness is already housed in an organ that changes with time, including some degree of dying and regeneration. So we already know that consciousness is retained under the transformation because it's happening to all of us every day to a lesser degree.
[11:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:12] <exec> 08└─According to Google: and the other categories of the same are referred to, according to the essence (according to the very meaning of the word, is the name of the tribe, the number and the names and the names of the two): always come the word of the word, which is in these first sayings): For it is...
[11:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:14] <exec> 08└─The scientists are inherently limited because they're fundamentally honest people for the most part.
[11:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:16] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is if you do the same argument backwards (that is, given the current state, what was the state in the past), then you get that up to now, the entropy most likely decreased. Which is exactly because the fundamental equations are time reversible.
[11:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:18] <exec> 08└─And BTW, do you know what a rhetorical question is?
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[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─Of course Equifax is the best positioned for the job - with the database already opened, they can afford to crowd-source now. (grin)
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not normally of the revenge mindset but these asshats deserve to be fully doxxed. Equifax is allowed to profit from our data, be reckless with security, delay informing victims, and attempt to trick people into paying for monitoring services while giving up their right to sue. Instead of sending...
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not normally of the revenge mindset but these asshats deserve to be fully doxxed. Equifax is allowed to profit from our data, be reckless with security, delay informing victims, and attempt to trick people into paying for monitoring services while giving up their right to sue. Instead of sending...
[12:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:47] <exec> 08└─Why do we hear so much news regarding discoveries about black holes, dark matter, dark energy, (ie things not directly visible to astronomers)? Obviously there are the solar system probes we hear about, but beyond the SS, has anything else interesting been observed recently?
[12:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:07] <exec> 08└─Can't give you figures, but if some small numbers are ok with you, here you are: manufacturing price decreased from $US1.30 per Watt to $0.50 per Watt between the years of 2011 of 2014 [solarmarket.com.au]. Currently estimated as $0.30 per Watt FOB. Residential consumers pay (in US) between $2.87 an...
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─50% of an unknown is still unknown
[12:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:11] <exec> 08└─...the electric supply is 100% solar.
[12:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:13] <exec> 08└─"mom, can I take a bottle of oil with me when we go to Mars?" "no need, honey, they're already growing sun flowers over there, they have their own oil." "no, I mean real oil, the black gooey dinosaur thing."
[12:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:15] <exec> 08└─Think bigger. We should reserve our history by moving the Earth to a safer location[1]. Jupiter (see note below comic) [schlockmercenary.com] should do as a removals vehicle. [1] Assuming, that is, that in 5 billion years we STILL don't have the technology to somehow prevent the Earth going Red Gian...
[12:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:17] <exec> 08└─Residential consumers pay (in US) between $2.87 and $3.85 per Watt installed [energysage.com]. Which does hint a single thing: the "installed residential solar" market does not show enough competition
[12:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:24] <exec> 08└─"What if God was ... one of us?" ;)
[12:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:09] <exec> 08└─This is a story made up of nothing.
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[13:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 2251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:28] <exec> 08└─They have a 128 bit variant of the cpu architecture available, and while it isn't available in FPGA, nevermind ASIC form yet AFAIK, it would really help to start clearing up the datatypes and working on 128 bit errata in the codebase now, rather than sitting on it like they did with the 64 bit CPU v...
[13:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:41] <exec> 08└─This actually comes as a surprise to you? There is nothing, nothing, the government controls that is not intentionally made worse for a buck, screwed up through incompetence, or maliciously and deliberately used against the American people. And yet every chance they get retards on both sides of the...
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─Beyond the solar system it's pretty hard to see the small stuff.
[13:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:17] <exec> 08└─No, it tells you that the panel price has not been a dominant part of the cost for a long time.
[13:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, ad hominem, your concession has been acknowledged. But to answer - exactly what is it I should search on? Nameplate capacity? Production? Grid connections? Orders? Completed construction? and so on... Without specifying that I can tell you that lignin biogas far has outperformed solar for the la...
[13:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:21] <exec> 08└─> Ummmm... let's run a comparison, shall we? > Average salary Australia - $81,000 p.a. [livingin-australia.com] It would be helpful if you used the same currency for comparisons...or did you think that the Aussies used US Dollars?? Just now Google tells me that 81947 Australian Dollar equals 64035.0...
[13:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks, interesting to see its progress. But still expensive for utility scale (when viewed globally when considering capacity factors and backup, but at nameplate it is cheap)
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:25] <exec> 08└─I'll just drop this URL here. The TLDR is for a mix of environmental regulation type stuff, coal is very expensive. All "realistic" sources of energy have a capex of $1000 to $10000 per KW capacity so in the figures here on SN thats $1 to $10 per watt up front cost. EIA publication "Cost and Perform...
[13:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm, messed up the URL: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:20] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has offered Windows source code to just about every country, including Russia and China, under a lovely license agreement specifically for such purposes. So have just about every major software manufacturer in the world. Unless there's an embargo (and referring to Russia as an "adversary"...
[13:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:21] <exec> 08└─Source: https://www.ecommercetimes.com [ecommercetimes.com] "Microsoft has revealed portions of its Windows source code to a dozen foreign governments as part of its Government Security Program Initiative" "Entities already associated with the program include NATO, Austria, China, F...
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[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─At one point, an FDA inspector noticed a one-inch-long, unidentified crawling insect directly underneath a batch of pastries.
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:38] <exec> 08└─You might remember from Futurama that Mom's Robot Oil is made with 10% more Love. So why can't bakery pastries be made with Love? As for the insects, just add some language about, " . . . and other natural ingredients". That way you don't even have to make an effort to identify these one inch long u...
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─1. +1 Interesting 2. Wow. I thought I wrote run on sentences. 3. Isn't it possible to cross compile / link Raspberry Pi code from bigger beefier* machines. Or is that a problem? 4. LLVM is something like a dream come true. Something I could only have dreamed of in the 90's. Not that I care to work a...
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─The work that Alex has done is now using some work from a Krzysztof Parzyszek at CodeAurora to allow instruction definitions to support different register sizes depending on the current target. This means that most of the RV32 and RV64 code is shared, and it would be fairly easy to add support for R...
[14:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:52] <exec> 08└─64 bits ought to be enough for anyone. You can quote me on that.
[14:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:54] <exec> 08└─Instead of focusing on 128 bits. Then 256 bits, etc. I wish they would focus on putting MORE CORES into cpus. How about 16 cores. 32 cores. 64 cores. Etc. IMO, that is where the future lies as it becomes harder and more turgid to squeeze out the last drops of performance from a single core. After ye...
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:06] <exec> 08└─How long will it take for people to finally wake up and realize capitalism's failure? Big business screwing over peoples' interests continuously and THEN GETTING REWARDED! How is this not a national outrage? Trump, mass shootings, egregious data leaks by negligent capitalists! When will people wake...
[14:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─With millions of people's identity floating around, what can be proven?
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, this deal has been cooking since long before the breach - the IRS doesn't plunk down $7.5m on a whim, there are meetings and proposals and signoffs... I imagine whoever pushed the button on this has been holding it to the last minute to see if they could find an acceptable alter...
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:12] <exec> 08└─That's why there's government regulation.... sometimes less is not better.
[14:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─Since he's comparing labour costs to install costs, it doesn't matter. If you convert to US $ then the average salary goes to $64,000 as you said, but the install cost goes to 94 cents. The ratio is still the same.
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:55] <exec> 08└─I also wonder what maintenance costs are (cleaning dust and bio-fouling from the panels) in various regions.
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:57] <exec> 08└─unless humans (or another intelligent species that evolves later) eventually leave earth
[14:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:59] <exec> 08└─...the electric supply is 100% solar.
[14:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:01] <exec> 08└─Look, Mr. Real Trump, 1. Solar PV will replace coal. Deal with it. 2. Don't build a Wall along the entire border. Build a Walmart along the entire border. The Mexicans would be happy to come in from the back and work in the Walmart. Pay them more than minimum wage. The Americans would come in form t...
[14:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:03] <exec> 08└─.com and .gov are working together to discouragemonetize solar panels while signalling in public how great they are, to get the best of both worlds.
[14:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:06] <exec> 08└─I also wonder what maintenance costs are (cleaning dust and bio-fouling from the panels) in various regions.
[14:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:15] <exec> 08└─if we 'find out' that we really are in a simulation, there goes the whole 'god idea'.
[14:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, a classical computer in an extra-dimensional universe would have a CPU laid out in "flat" 3 dimensions, or heck say 8 dimensions. Who would think that exponentially complex things cannot be solved in linear time in that universe?
[14:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:19] <exec> 08└─I dunno, it could be they simulated billions of solar systems to see what conditions would most likely lead to life, then to intelligent life. Pray that no intelligent life arises in our universe, or they might pull the plug! Also, it could be equally fascinating to them to study water-bears.
[14:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:21] <exec> 08└─The best part is when the chess piece realizes the chess player cannot possibly know all the moves or the outcome of the game before hand! The HORROR!
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[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─ite, i'm outta here.
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─During a recent bakery inspection, FDA agents discovered: dirt and filth caked onto ceiling vents and sprinklers directly above ready-to-eat foods
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 5115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─1. ... 2. ... 3. The bigger beefier machines now have either Trustzone or Intel ME with signed firmware running on them, rendering them even less trustworthy than prior concerns over cpu microcode updates (which at least would require unverified code to trigger any backdoors.) While the RPi SoC stil...
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─Would be a far better solution, although it would cause variance in code size and execution, as well as issues with current languages that make assumptions about pointer and other type sizes. A number of processors over the years have used 'chunks' or 'segments' for this exact reason. The problem be...
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─The bigger beefier machines now have either Trustzone or Intel ME with signed firmware
[15:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:17] <exec> 08└─There is nothing, nothing, the government controls that is not intentionally made worse for a buck, screwed up through incompetence, or maliciously and deliberately used against the American people.
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─What sort of gravity wave would the merger of 2 supermassive black holes make? The merger of stellar mass black holes of about 30 suns convert an incredible 3 suns worth of mass into energy in an instant. I mean, our sun has been powering life on Earth for about 4 billion years, with just a tiny fra...
[15:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:07] <exec> 08└─Well, while I tend to agree that it's a small price to pay for electricity, rinsing the panels once a week is a whole lot more work than your average homeowner does to keep the A/C running. Here in Florida (and anywhere along the Gulf coast) black mold seems to grow on just about anything that doesn...
[15:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:26] <exec> 08└─Where'd the water come from? Who made the little pools? Where'd the meteorite come from? So many questions.
[15:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:21] <exec> 08└─Ok, I state again. I'm conceding the point. The universe is a simulation! It's a simulation!!! So, how do I find out what's "outside" the simulation now that I have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's a simulation? How do we know that what's "outside" the simulation even resembles this...
[15:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I also forgot to tell you that the User told me that she's starting to think that she's in a simulation!!! What the fuck do we do now?! I'll give a hint. This thought experiment does not conclude the same way that Thirteenth Floor did, where you break through to the realest reality and retir...
[15:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:24] <exec> 08└─I hope tax payer money isn't paying for this crap
[15:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:26] <exec> 08└─You'd get a polynimial speedup from parallelism at the most. For exponential, you'd need a universe with hyperbolic geometry and at least two dimensions.
[15:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:57] <exec> 08└─Who knew S. Cahn J. Van Heusen was such a visionary? High Hopes Lyrics Next time you're found with your chin on the ground There's a lot to be learned so look around Just what makes that little ol' ant Think he'll move that rubber tree plant Anyone knows an ant can't Move a rubber tree plant But he'...
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─You don't usually need administrative privilege to install executables to your user account.
[15:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─I'm confused as to how a web of trust can become dense enough to provide reasonable faith in someone's identity if there aren't enough people who travel internationally to key signing parties. International tourism is expensive, as are specialist legal services to determine whether key signing const...
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[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─Does keeping your eyes on the road really matter when traffic is stand-still anyway?
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─now, almost all the controls in that thing. Gone are the day where you could just grab a knob to adjust volume and the heat. The menus are deep too. (under which menu did they put the defrost fan on. I can't see a thing! BOOM!) BONUS: Each model/make have their own different menu schemes. But it sav...
[16:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─Anti-Alcoholics Anonymous? Admirers of Abundant Abbreviations? Alliteration Association of America?
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─Your brain implant should have automatically grabbed the infocard [google.com] from Google.
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─I know it sounds ridiculous on the suface but when you have douchebag companies lobbying and getting regulations changed so that they can do things like calling an ingredient by a different name to avoid boycotts (High fructose corn syrup, for example) you have to take precautions. That way they don...
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─Made with 50 micrograms of love 😉❤
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─The android will be disappointed. "The secretary ingredient is basil. And love. But mostly basil."
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─"Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
[16:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 1077 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─The work that Alex has done is now using some work from a Krzysztof Parzyszek at CodeAurora to allow instruction definitions to support different register sizes depending on the current target. This means that most of the RV32 and RV64 code is shared, and it would be fairly easy to add support for R...
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Mind you you might have a predisposition to root for assholes if you chose to jump from Apple and C++ to first Sun then Oracle and Java :P Not really a big fan of Java as a language, although I do appreciate the work it has lead to in VMs, especially JamVM. The promised write once run anywhere...
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─Glad to hear we have members of the soylent community so closely involved in projects like this :) While most people still scoff at the need for 128 bit addressing/hardware, I don't forsee it taking as long as many others do to end up needing the added address space, especially given how many of the...
[16:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─128 bit addressing would also be useful for IPv6 since it already uses 128 bit address fields and a 128 bit RISC-V chip might make a good alternative for routers and other devices that need to work with such values in as few cycles as possible.
[16:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:17] <exec> 08└─GCC was actually like this, but Stallman and the dumbasses steering the project decided to start obfuscating code and breaking interfaces to keep other companies from doing like NeXT and outright stealing the code
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─I found this funny: "Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle blasted the IRS decision." They should have added the phrase: "in public". The IRS doesn't do things like this, unless compelled to by congressional graft. The next question is: How is Equifax supposed to validate the IRS's data without viola...
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not normally of the revenge mindset but these asshats deserve to be fully doxxed.
[16:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:27] <exec> 08└─Since sunlight and circulating air tends to kill black mold, I would've thought mold wouldn't do well on open-air surfaces designed to be hit with direct sunlight. Some might grow underneath the unit or other shaded area, sure, but that wouldn't impact the efficiency of the PV panels themselves.
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to Continue Stay at the International Space Station - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:56] <exec> 08└─Its never just a temporary shed to get through the season! But that's what you say at first. 40 years later, its packed full of stuff and you have to keep patching it because its too useful. But it is neat the module is working well so far.
[16:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to Continue Stay at the International Space Station - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:58] <exec> 08└─I assume they could deorbit the module with some garbage and stuff still in it. Burn it all! Packed size is about 29% the volume of inflated size, although I don't know if they could fit anything in there while it's deflated. Options to keep it on the ISS for additional years? NASA may be renting BE...
[16:12:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:27] <exec> 08└─First off, if we are in a simulation there is no reason to believe the laws of physics being modeled are exactly the same as the ones that hold in the "outside" universe hosting the simulation hardware. What if our purpose is to determine what sorts of different physics can still result in life? Who...
[16:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:07] <exec> 08└─Turkey's culture is rapidly becoming less secular. Within a couple generations, you can expect it to be like ISIS or Taliban. Christian stuff will be destroyed. It happened in Palmyra. It happened with the giant Buddha in Afghanistan. It will happen to this tomb, and it will happen to the Egyptian p...
[16:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─That would never work on humans. We're too smart and complex to be easily manipulated by robots. Ooh! My phone just notified me I have a coupon for 50% off my next pizza!
[16:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─Speak correctly, Master Yoda does. Incorrect listening faculties, you possess. Mess with subject-verb-object order, we will, until the object side clouds your mind. Focus on the other, you will, until you serve. Then Jedi, you will be. Okeeday? Meesa goin' off to comment on boss other old threads th...
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[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─> Congress Will Investigate Drug Company "Hey, nice trick you just used. People didn't like it, and I haven't seen my cut yet. It'd be a shame if any law was to happen to it"
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─Given what I've seen happen when tribes try to hold up their sovereign status, this sounds like a good route to more restrictions on said sovereign status. I remember when the Chief of the Pojoaque Pueblo threatened to erect a toll booth on a highway running through the Pueblo between Santa Fe and L...
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─Yet another big business looking to skirt the law using complex loopholes. We the people, keep getting fucked five ways from friday by these sons of bitches yet somehow it's always the fault of Trump, Obama, liberals, conservatives, illegals, terrorists, or $BoogeyManOfTheDay. It's all about money a...
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─You also need to be ready to move at the same time as the guy in front of you. Assholes who think being in a traffic jam is a good time to send a text actually cause the traffic jam to last longer, two seconds at a time (times hundreds of cars and tens of stops).
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:44] <exec> 08└─"AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety" It's in the summary.
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─Seriously, AARP should weigh in on this issue. Aging people take longer than young people to focus their attention from the road, to whatever distraction, and then back on the road. If it's stupid for younger people to fiddle with all those gadgets, it's ten times more stupid for us mature people to...
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─I'm old, retired, and AARP member, and still do drift cornering. But I raced off road for decades and can run circles around younger wannabe Stigs.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─That may well be so - but how long does it take you to take your focus off of the road, read a line of text, then focus back on the road? It takes longer than it took you to do the same 40 years ago, amirite? Now, if it takes you an extra half second, what about all of our peers who never did learn...
[17:10:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─I know it sounds ridiculous on the suface but when you have douchebag companies lobbying and getting regulations changed so that they can do things like calling an ingredient by a different name to avoid boycotts (High fructose corn syrup, for example) you have to take precautions. That way they don...
[17:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─The Beatles told us that love is all you need, and now we learn it isn't even an ingredient, let alone the only one. Damn liars.
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─Nashoba Chief Executive Officer John Gates said the FDA's take on love as an ingredient "just felt so George Orwell."
[17:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─If the bakery can list "Love" as an ingredient, can't Chevron list "Green Good Intentions" as an ingredient in their petroleum products?
[17:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─There seems to be some confusion resulting from a Bloomberg false & clickbait headline: False: TFHeadline: FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─Entirely agreed. There is advertising feel-good fluff, and there is technical information. If they put "love" in the official label, then it necessarily must be taken both seriously and literally, as people can and should rely on the truth and accuracy of the ingredient list. Your example of putting...
[17:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:52] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, this deal has been cooking since long before the breach - the IRS doesn't plunk down $7.5m on a whim, there are meetings and proposals and signoffs... I imagine whoever pushed the button on this has been holding it to the last minute to see if they could find an acceptable alter...
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:03] <exec> 08└─> it's hard to imagine it makes a few waves which quickly fade away "a few waves" which can be detected 1.4 (+/- 0.6) Billions light-years away/later in some random other system. by a detector that is 4km long, representing what infinitesimal fraction of a degree? Surfing that small wave from less t...
[17:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:44] <exec> 08└─> unless humans (...) eventually leave earth (...) and take dinosaurs with them I'm pretty sure we had all agreed on Congress taking Ark B.
[17:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:45] <exec> 08└─How many panels do you run, and what's their rating? Do they supply 100% of your monthly kwhs or do you have a grid tie? Did you buy them piecemeal out-of-pocket and hook them up yourself, or did you get a home equity loan and hire it done? Just curious about your real-world experience. I've been th...
[17:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:47] <exec> 08└─It's actually "dawn of solar age", as if we hadn't spent a few millennia powered by biofuels and rivers, both of which are sustained directly by solar power.
[17:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:50] <exec> 08└─Is this now the dawn of the Linux Desktop age? Is this now the dawn of fusion power being 10 years away?
[17:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:52] <exec> 08└─That has been automated, at least for large solar panel farms. https://phys.org [phys.org]
[17:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:12] <exec> 08└─Going red? Nahhh, you ain't got it in you.
[17:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:14] <exec> 08└─Insightful. So many researchers seem so very sure of themselves - but they can offer no proofs. Next year, there will be another study to refute this study - but THEY won't offer any proofs either. Meanwhile, you, me, or anyone can sit around and daydream (with or without the benefit of hallucinogen...
[17:13:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 1448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:02] <exec> 08└─chess piece who has become self aware* discovers that the chess player cannot be a chess piece itself as it needs some appendage to pick pieces up. Interesting but not that much. What meatbags discussing these things tend to forget about this> the rules of the 'simulation' (it is not a simulation, i...
[17:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:14] <exec> 08└─I hope tax payer money isn't paying for this crap
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, they can smell Aristarchus in the water . . .
[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─"it will happen to the Egyptian pyramids." At least the Goa'uld won't have a place to park their spaceships anymore! #silverlining
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[18:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:37] <exec> 08└─Since the tribe is an independent nation, they will make it impossible to contest the patent. But that doesn't matter, because there's no reason at all for the US to recognize patents registered in a foreign nation. Especially when that nation does not have any sort of actual patent office with a re...
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─I find your lack of faith disturbing. Congress will definitely do something about it. It might not result in any new laws. But you can bet that some how, some way, money will flow into the pockets of congress critters. If Allergan is making billions of dollars a year on this drug, congress is going...
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─They patent office should declare the patents null and void. If the patents are protected from opponents of the patent through the means of this transfer, then the protections the patent grants should also be voided. I have a simple test I like to invoke when considering the legal and tax tricks of...
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─Previous story and wikipedia link added.
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:45] <exec> 08└─The patents are not *registered* in a foreign nation, merely owned by a foreign nation. The stupidity here is that the IPR process is unable to review patents that are owned by a state actor. Why is this? I can only imagine that this piece of idiocy was put into the law by some crafty lobbyist with...
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─In order to use the courts, you have to submit to the courts. If the tribe wants to use the courts to defend their patents, they should have to submit to the courts for a patent review. They need to pick a plan.
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─Too bad there isn't a mod for -1 Cynical. ...mainly because politicians care about influence more than money. That kind of corruption is illegal and provable, but influence peddling is much harder to track.
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─> That kind of corruption is illegal and provable Campaign contributions are unlimited. Leftover campaign funds can be pocketed. Drug companies are just exercising their First amendment rights, mmmkay?
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─> read a line of text, then focus back on the road? It takes longer than it took you to do the same 40 years ago, amirite? Do trendy sunglasses come as bifocals? Switching to reading glasses mid-drift sounds like quite a trick.
[18:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─If you are behind the wheel you should concentrate on driving. Nothing else. Not texting, not messing with the cup holder and your coffee, not checking your eye lashes, not glancing down at your phone/map/radio every 10 seconds. When you are stopped you should be paying attention to traffic and pede...
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you replace buttons and knobs with stupid touch interfaces. You can't feel for the controls anymore, you MUST look at a screen, while at speed, and try to focus on said screen and steady your hand to press the correct "button". You can do buttons, knobs, AND touch screens....
[18:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─Examples of carmakers reversing boneheaded decisions to move everything to touchscreen controls are rare, but they do happen. The 2017 Honda Fit didn't have a volume knob, but they must've received a lot of complaints because the knob is back as of the 2018 model.
[18:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─They initially wrote "all you need is bugs", but legitimately worried it wouldn't be a smash hit. "All you need is Crabs" was also rejected, even if making the music video on a Pacific Island was tempting, and "All you need is Weed" never reached the last stanza.
[18:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:35] <exec> 08└─> government mandated and enforced technical documentation is not one of them Where's our friendly neighborhood Violently Imposed Monopoly troll lurking, when we properly need to denounce the inability to formally list love as an ingredient?
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:37] <exec> 08└─After all, TMB hates government getting involved in anything, so government pointing out that the place is filthy and the food probably contaminated is bad, right?
[18:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:39] <exec> 08└─All of those people claiming filth is subjective should have to eat exclusively from "pet friendly" restaurants, bakeries, and food suppliers. Employees can bring their pets to work every day and let them shit, piss, and shed all over the floors. Regular cleanings are fine of course. Super clean. En...
[18:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─The way the letter expressed it may have been a bit clumsy. It's stupid booracrat language; but it's not censorship or oppression. The ingredient list is serious business. Consumers expect it to be accurate. If you let one company start mucking around with that, next thing you know it'll be full of...
[18:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:43] <exec> 08└─Don't joke: http://cookingwithcum.com [cookingwithcum.com]
[18:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:46] <exec> 08└─So the FDA responded to all the hubbub about the "love" ingredient pointing out that yes, they told them to stop it but it's a minor part of the compliance letter and they are more concerned with the overall unsanitary conditions they found “This is an example of a company whose actions — or lac...
[18:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 4168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─I don't root for Sun. I especially don't root for Oracle. Back when I did root for Apple, they were leading the industry in every way. But then Apple stumbled. Steve Jobs was brought back. And then everything became about fashion. Now Apple products aren't necessarily even user friendly. Let alone b...
[18:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:14] <exec> 08└─Of course Equifax is the best positioned for the job - with the database already opened, they can afford to crowd-source now. (grin)
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:27] <exec> 08└─"...what could be worse than giving this to Equifax..." Well for one: from TFA: "The IRS defended its decision in a statement, saying that Equifax told the agency that none of its data was involved in the breach and that Equifax already provides similar services to the IRS under a previous contract....
[18:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─Residential consumers pay (in US) between $2.87 and $3.85 per Watt installed [energysage.com]. Which does hint a single thing: the "installed residential solar" market does not show enough competition
[18:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:25] <exec> 08└─"Solar powered by photovoltaics, or PVs, grew by 50 percent, with almost half of new plants built in China" good god! my PV system is powering the "solar"! no wonder they have to build more coal and nuke plants; the "solar" grows, feed by PVs, and thus is also making climate change! i need to discon...
[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─Renewable figures have to be taken with a gigantic grain of salt. Figures for "all renewables" often include 3rd world countries clear-cutting and burning their forests, tribes cooking over dung, and other things that are actually worse than burning coal in a modern plant. But, trees, they're techni...
[18:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:28] <exec> 08└─Even worse than not putting it all in the same currency, are the other two errors in this post. You compare the average wages of all workers in the US (including part time) to the average wages of only full time workers in Australia, and you compared the price of residential installations in the US...
[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─> N.K. being the biggest BSOD of them all. Let me see [wikipedia.org] The Norwegian Krone is a pretty stable currency backed by smartest investment policies of any oil state. Spirit Airlines isn't doing terrible compared to the others' scandals. North Korea is just yet another nuclear-armed weird na...
[18:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─1. Useful and interesting science does not need to be practically applicable. You are thinking of engineering. 2. This is an interesting and useful step in addressing questions about the nature of our universe. It helps define the bounds of what to do next, where to look. That alone makes it useful...
[18:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─> odds are it isn't perfectly emulating every particle Heisenberg's principle is just the symptom of a neat simulation optimization trick: perceptibly lossless compression, with the noise set at the Planck level.
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─> they appear only to have proven that a classical computer could not model the universe in less than exponential time. > If reality is a computer simulation of some kind, we presumably wouldn't be able to tell how quickly it's running from inside it :) Exactly. Someone is forgetting to contextualiz...
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─We can only hope that Lichtman is totally infallible. http://www.politico.com [politico.com]
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[19:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─The only way to tie is not to play.
[19:09:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─Since the tribe is an independent nation, they will make it impossible to contest the patent. But that doesn't matter, because there's no reason at all for the US to recognize patents registered in a foreign nation. Especially when that nation does not have any sort of actual patent office with a re...
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be +1 Cynical?
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─No matter how you look at it, in the final analysis, Allergan is just using the Mohawk. Few, if any, Mohawk will pocket any money. Their lives won't improve. They will get no respect from the white man. The Mohawk will remain outcasts on their own land, just as all Native Americans who have maintain...
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─Well corporations can tell the public that various profits are theirs (in financial reports and other statements), and they can use the money to buy stuff or as collateral for loans. But at the same time they can tell the Tax Dept that the profits aren't theirs but some entity in Ireland and thus th...
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─The "sovereign immunity" doesn't stop there. If you work at a casino or any other business on an Indian reservation you are not protected by any workers rights, including work comp or wage violations. Those fuckers will screw over everyone but themselves. They won't even honor doctors orders for lig...
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─They can have it both ways. As TheLink observed upthread, corporations nearly always do.
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─I can only imagine that this piece of idiocy was put into the law by some crafty lobbyist with the future use of this particular trick in mind.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the problem. Ownership of a patent should be irrelevant to the process of reviewing or enforcing the patent. The US patent system is seriously broken.
[19:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─No More Acronyms Association of America
[19:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:24] <exec> 08└─Just rented a 2017 Camry (base model) and it had knobs for power/volume and tune/select on the radio/CD/USB. Also had some controls on the steering wheel. What it didn't have (and this seems to be common these days) is any way to fast forward or "rewind" in the middle of a track. Very annoying if li...
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─You also need to be ready to move at the same time as the guy in front of you. Assholes who think being in a traffic jam is a good time to send a text actually cause the traffic jam to last longer, two seconds at a time (times hundreds of cars and tens of stops).
[19:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─I feel it is my civic duty to honk the horn when the light turns green and the person doesn't go. Most people seem to feel bad about it and get going. Once in a while someone displays a bad attitudinal reaction.
[19:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:30] <exec> 08└─How do you survive without a bubble of total self-absorption?
[19:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:17] <exec> 08└─... then you're not working on something worthwhile. It's just consumer crap. Anyway, as a language, C++ is superior because one of its guiding design principles is that you shouldn't have to pay for a feature you don't use; this has led to a language that can be used for coding from the lowest leve...
[19:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:39] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair pretty much every system gets subverted by human greed and ambition. Capitalism has problems which should be balanced by a mix of other ideologies. Socialism for universal needs, and strict rules to minimize damage from bad actors. I guess if you want to declare worker owned business...
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─"You know the drill pal, if you're not [insert corrupt office] you're little people!"
[19:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─they can all be rounded up and shot on tv for all i care.
[19:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:45] <exec> 08└─Depends on your perspective. Me, I prefer the IRS to be as incompetent as possible, so it would have been better if they'd kept it in-house.
[19:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:56] <exec> 08└─> Surfing that small wave from less than a few hundred light-years away would warp you to mush (or whatever your heart and blood do when the time and space on your feet doesn't match with your chest). Really? I doubt it. Care to explain the mechanism?
[19:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:46] <exec> 08└─"Photovoltaic" is not significantly longer than "PV", and if you're making the distinction then your audience should be perfectly capable of handling the technical term. Reducing perfectly serviceable words and phrases like this is how a phrase like "happy as a clam at high tide" turns into "happy a...
[19:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─And looking deeper, one of the things going on was that the IEA choose to use 2012 figures for the US and Japan (from here [nrel.gov]) and they apparently count subsidies as a reduction of cost. From the link: Based on our data and analysis, the weighted- average residential system price in Japan fo...
[19:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─Your premise of Walmart paying more than minimum wage is laughable. Many of their workers are paid so little that if they were not on government assistance, they literally could not afford to work there. Bring in foreigners and pay them more? That's exactly the opposite of the reason to hire outland...
[19:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─I've pointed a similar thing out before - you can't fully simulate our universe with a classical computer because the math our classical computers use have nothing for our subjective experiences - e.g. the experience of tasting chocolate. There's classical math for the physics for the movement of th...
[19:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:18] <exec> 08└─Happy Ricksgiving bitch!!!
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[20:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:31] <exec> 08└─Colleges are marketing classes with zero career prospects except possibly teaching the same class you just took? Say it ain't so!
[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:32] <exec> 08└─Do they also offer diplomas in how to make and throw paper airplanes or tying your own shoelaces? How about how to zip your pants and fasten your belt or is that one considered a symbol of "White Supremacy"?
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─As I interpret it, it's basically saying that for most non-trivial games, the ideal strategy will depend on the strategy of the other players rather than be a universal single-best strategy.
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this has big ramifications for economics.
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─That's the basic Nash equilibrium though it's rather the collective strategy that results in the largest guaranteed minimum payout for each player. The catch is that you are limited in what you can learn about payoffs for the choices given from previous plays (and possibly announcements by the playe...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:11] <exec> 08└─But they already contribute to the campaign. Congress shaking them down is more likely to make them contribute less, not more.
[20:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:13] <exec> 08└─Whoa! "Congress will investigate", is nowhere near "congress passed a law declaring the bastards will be punished for screwing everyone". Companies which feel threatened by a Congress investigation, are Free to ... exercise their First Amendment right ... to encourage individual key Congress members...
[20:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─That sounds more like an argument to avoid living in New York or other similarly dense urban environment rather than an argument against honking.
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─It's an argument against honking in a dense urban environment, because different circumstances call for different behaviors, yes? In Seattle it's not a problem for a pedestrian to stop abruptly in the middle of the sidewalk, because no one walks. In NYC, doing that will result in the 10 people follo...
[20:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─He died after eating a tainted batch of sausage. Karma's a beeeee-yitch.
[20:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:10] <exec> 08└─All I need is this lamp. And that table. All I need is this lamp and that table. Oh, and this rug. So, all I need is this lamp and table and that rug and . . .
[20:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:32] <exec> 08└─I was just about to ask what the use of a 128-bit ISA would be, and then saw this. Thanks :) That is absolutely brilliant, as it means a single IPv6 address can fit in, if I understand this right, one register of said CPU.
[20:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:59] <exec> 08└─Capitalism qua capitalism does not cause this. Dysregulated capitalism does. We have too many of the wrong sort of regulations, not enough of the right ones, and most of them were deliberately made to weaken or stymie one another.
[20:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:00] <exec> 08└─And the IRS is stupid enough to believe them. With such a breach, IRS should demand concrete evidence that their data was not compromised. The breach alone, and how incompetent Equifax has shown to be, they cannot be trusted in keeping anyone's data secure.
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think so because there's a feedback loop involved with this. The more people who go off-grid or, worse, feed power back into the grid that the utility has to buy, the smaller the pool of grid customers who share the cost of maintaining the grid and the profits of the utility. So each time a...
[20:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─Solar may be great, someday, but only when the storage problem is solved. Meanwhile, it mostly lives on government subsidies, directly or indirectly.
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─Once again, Runaway, read it again. It does not say what you think it says.
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─Kolob. Next!
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:33] <exec> 08└─the "warm little ponds" concept has been around since Darwin
[20:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─Just a slob like one of us?
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─No, man, not sharks. Not around here. Around here ignorance attracts buzzards.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:05] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that. Respect for sites holy to other religions has been pretty constant throughout Turkey's history. In other words it's deeply embedded in Turkish culture. They converted the Hagia Sophia to a mosque after the fall of the Byzantines, but they didn't destroy the iconography or de...
[20:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─Don't they know, the fools?! Leave Santa Claus's grave alone [wikipedia.org].
[20:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:59] <exec> 08└─Why can't new neighborhoods build a fiberoptic LAN for itself, and the multiple such neighborhoods could connect to each other via visible laser towers, etc., and then the same between nearby cities. The Web should probably be re-organized in the distributed way, too, with multiple copies of website...
[20:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:21] <exec> 08└─PHB's and consumers will almost always choose eye-candy and fads over security, unless the security risks are made very clear to them and they don't have to trust you to believe it.
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[21:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─Is the "Digital Gardening" boom over, then? https://schitte.github.io [github.io] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─There is a career right there. Bird shot might work better.
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─If you try to do so, you'll just get tyranny. Let The People make their own choices about whether or not this is a good investment; there's only one problem: Governments have made it very easy to get loans for underwater basket weaving, and other courses like this. That allows people to get into deb...
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─So, a more complicated version of clay pigeon shooting?
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, sure. I was just mourning the failure of The People to be able to tell shit from shinola best two out of three.
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:45] <exec> 08└─Face it, there is no chance of teaching the course - every other student who passes will also be lining up. Colleges (companies, generally) see a potential market and try and make money from it. This is how companies (try and) make money. Useless college qualifications have been around a very long t...
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─What's going on with this research is a fixed game where payouts are unknown at first and slowly discovered collectively by the players of a very complex game. It's very different from a market where a lot of knowledge is already known about market participants and price discovery provides a rapid m...
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─Strawman version of free market economics? You do realize that the free market theory is itself a massive strawman yes? There is no such thing as a truly free market, the same way that econ 101 suppy/demand curves are quite rarely seen in reality. Know how to tell when someone is a blowhard? It simp...
[21:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─> Congress Will Investigate Drug Company "Hey, nice trick you just used. People didn't like it, and I haven't seen my cut yet. It'd be a shame if any law was to happen to it"
[21:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─Given what I've seen happen when tribes try to hold up their sovereign status, this sounds like a good route to more restrictions on said sovereign status. I remember when the Chief of the Pojoaque Pueblo threatened to erect a toll booth on a highway running through the Pueblo between Santa Fe and L...
[21:10:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 523 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─They patent office should declare the patents null and void. If the patents are protected from opponents of the patent through the means of this transfer, then the protections the patent grants should also be voided. I have a simple test I like to invoke when considering the legal and tax tricks of...
[21:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:28] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping they use at least 32-bit integers in the code, if we start being allowed to rate posts as "Cynical"... Maybe-future-feature question (to TMB, as usual): What about listing all the mods a comment gets, rather than whatever fancy algorithm currently decides the sum of Funny+Insightful+Touch...
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─+i Cynical.
[21:11:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:22] <exec> 08└─The way the letter expressed it may have been a bit clumsy. It's stupid booracrat language; but it's not censorship or oppression. The ingredient list is serious business. Consumers expect it to be accurate. If you let one company start mucking around with that, next thing you know it'll be full of...
[21:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:27] <exec> 08└─> next thing you know it'll be full of cuteness, magic, etc. and it will just be an annoying thing to read It's already a pain to read. But at least you can. Let "love" slide, and before you know it you'll have a page of marketing bullshit fuzzy words used to conceal the arsenic, lead and depleted u...
[21:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:29] <exec> 08└─Would have modded you +1Gross, but... Brings a whole new meaning to "Cum and get it!"
[21:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:31] <exec> 08└─I can't believe there are 'cat cafes': https://www.southpawcatcafe.com [southpawcatcafe.com] Eat and drink with all the pussy you want! Errrm, no thanks.
[21:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:33] <exec> 08└─Nah, just use Kleenex!
[21:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:56] <exec> 08└─Even if your demand for address space doubles every year, it's going to be 16 years before 64 bits starts to feel cramped
[21:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:57] <exec> 08└─Actually we might not have as much problem in the future with motherboards. Everything seems to be converging to a single base standard of differential pair signaling with 130/128 encoding. A modern CPU basically has a sea of pins using that base signaling and hooks groups of them to PCIe, intercpu...
[21:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moving RISC-V LLVM forwards - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:59] <exec> 08└─Why has nobody put together a rough draft for a standard, so we don't have to speak in riddles?
[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:33] <exec> 08└─Paging Doctor Timicin...Paging Doctor Timicin I found him here [wikia.com] - but there is no email address!
[21:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:59] <exec> 08└─You'll need to be more specific about what was new in that. spontaneous amino acid/RNA creation in lab-version early Earth water On this topic, the thing that comes to my mind is the The Miller-Urey experiment[1], published in 1953. [wikipedia.org] That used an aqueous solution with lots of volatile...
[21:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to Continue Stay at the International Space Station - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:12] <exec> 08└─AirBNB move over! SpaceBNB launching soon!
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─that they just let them keep a few of their old gods, and just called them "saints"
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Possible Tomb of Saint Nicholas in Antalya - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:36] <exec> 08└─Turkey Buzzards? (*ducks*)
[21:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing is synced with Google's cloud at all...
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[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:41] <exec> 08└─Aww bullcrap, there are plenty of college majors that translate into careers just fine. Perhaps not the exact career you wanted, but philosophy majors apparently do pretty well. English majors have a massive market for their skills. Basically getting a college degree is just a verification that you...
[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─When drones start appearing in the wild, it would seem that the FAA would need a couple-order-of-magnitude complexity change in its approach to traffic control infrastructure and support tools. That seems like a problem people could sink their teeth into.
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─The title could be changed to "Colleges are marketing courses, but career opportunities are murky" and be just as true.
[22:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─It's almost like some people are interested in things that don't have purely commercial utility. Or even maybe no commercial utility. How dare they.
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the other AC's point? People will pursue anything they want if somebody else is paying, and that leads to a misappropriation of resources.
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─Think about it.
[22:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─Strawman version of free market economics? You do realize that the free market theory is itself a massive strawman yes? There is no such thing as a truly free market, the same way that econ 101 suppy/demand curves are quite rarely seen in reality. Know how to tell when someone is a blowhard? It simp...
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─So what you saying shitty Socialism for entire population of America is impossible because e^300,000,000. I could have told you that.
[22:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:06] <exec> 08└─That is true, free market can only exist if the consumer has perfect information about the products. It is to the incentive of the producer/seller, and quite frankly the job of Marketing Department to ensure that the customer has no fucking idea what the product actually is.
[22:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─I have posted a link to a full math proof using information theory, but the general degradation in search (tried google, bing and duck) means it is now out of easy reach for reposting. But it has long been understood that it is a fatal problem in centrally planned economies even before the final mat...
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:10] <exec> 08└─Only if you believe the media narratives, which I guess is why so many people are upset about the NFL protests. Grow up. There is no mathematically perfect models of economics, QED you're still a blowhard. I'm not advocating a centrally planned economy, or saying we must be rid of capitalism FOREVER...
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─Not to mention they have motive to not inform the customer of better alternatives, thus causing harm. I wish we were able to move to the post-economic society where profits weren't so central to businesses and the lives of the workers. So much evil is caused by simple spreadsheets.
[22:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─Of course they won't, even if some other big players feel like this is bullshit they will support them because next it could be THEM on the chopping block. Sorta like the thin blue line. I propose a new phrase, "The Thin Red Line" which symbolizes how corporations collude against the people. Red of...
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:43] <exec> 08└─It would be nice, maybe a show/hide button. Clicking the comment ID to load a new page just to see moderation history is kinda lame. @bob, I'm pretty sure the fancy algorithm is a complex combination of plus and minus. +5 interesting, that's a mighty big minus isn't it?
[22:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Will Investigate Drug Company That Gave Its Patents to Mohawk Tribe - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:45] <exec> 08└─Its the circle of profits (corporate life) Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama Nants ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhhmm ingonyama Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba izinzuzo zakho
[22:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 1754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:04] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you replace buttons and knobs with stupid touch interfaces. You can't feel for the controls anymore, you MUST look at a screen, while at speed, and try to focus on said screen and steady your hand to press the correct "button". You can do buttons, knobs, AND touch screens....
[22:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Create Increased Distractions Behind the Wheel - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:13] <exec> 08└─Hiw about tri-focals or the "graduated lens" options? No one whould be driving with them, ever. Bad enough seeing parents and grandparents trip up steps because of them, let alone trying to see the road while tilting the head the wronf way and looking through the "close" part of the lens...
[22:11:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 809 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:40] <exec> 08└─So the FDA responded to all the hubbub about the "love" ingredient pointing out that yes, they told them to stop it but it's a minor part of the compliance letter and they are more concerned with the overall unsanitary conditions they found “This is an example of a company whose actions — or lac...
[22:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:48] <exec> 08└─Misquoted, but great movie! :)
[22:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:50] <exec> 08└─Self-saucing pudding? "sauce your own pudding"? Machiatto when you've run out of milk?
[22:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:52] <exec> 08└─I came to the comments especially to find out how the neighbourhood libertarians were going to explain how food hygiene rules violate businesses' freedoms, and how the market will correct these sorts of problems without onerous rules.
[22:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─You're painting with too broad a brush. Social Security is a prime example of efficiency. [google.com] Even limp-wristed[1] Obamacare is an improvement over what had existed in USA. Previously, some insurance companies had been skimming off 30 percent or more in overhead. Obamacare limited that to "...
[22:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:46] <exec> 08└─I dunno: with eqifux, it seems one of those "six of one" sitiations. Methinks they both can fuck it up equally, but now the gov can blame someone else while paying them enough to settle any lawsuits equifux will need to settle if any lawsuits result from blah blah blah. The new gov trough.
[22:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:48] <exec> 08└─Or dropping him off at a resort with a credit card https://infolific.com [infolific.com]
[22:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:50] <exec> 08└─Please don't throw me into the briar patch!
[22:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:52] <exec> 08└─So, basically, you want the government to not have any money to spend? Let me suggest that you move to one of any number of failed and almost failed states in Africa or South America. They are all shitholes, but I am sure that the government fulfills your desired level of organization. If you are lu...
[22:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─So let's attempt to fix this.
[22:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:01] <exec> 08└─The more people who go off-grid or, worse, feed power back into the grid
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to Continue Stay at the International Space Station - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:41] <exec> 08└─From the linked Wikipedia: Bigelow plans to build a second BEAM module as an airlock for the Bigelow Commercial Space Station [wikipedia.org].
[22:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe Isn't Being Simulated... by Classical Computers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:40] <exec> 08└─Just a stranger on the bus Tryin' to grope some tight asssssssss?
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[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Super-Elastic Surgical Glue That Sticks and Seals in Vivo, Even When Tissues Are Moving - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:25] <exec> 08└─"Slug Slime" Inspires New Surgical Glue [soylentnews.org]
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Super-Elastic Surgical Glue That Sticks and Seals in Vivo, Even When Tissues Are Moving - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─Delicious, nutritious, and really sticks to your ribs.
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─Hilaaarious! Nice one!
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─Try and not let the door hit you as you leave Try and not lose Try and you might win the English-should-be-spoken-my-way-as-the-only-correct-way award
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─Oh that's all fine and good if, like AC above implied, they're the ones paying. I know plenty of things that aren't worth a nickle. I didn't demand that you pay for me to learn them though; I learned them on my own time and on my own dime.
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─TRY WHAT?!
[23:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─I think he was speaking more of the less than practically useful anywhere, ever courses. Like, say, Gender Studies courses.
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─Why should society pay as much to create a theoretical physicist as it does to create a person who has read books and written about patriarchal phallic symbolism? Money is a signal that correlates both a society's supply of a resource, and society's demand of that resource. The signal has been total...
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities are Murky - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─...philosophy majors apparently do pretty well.
[23:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:19] <exec> 08└─Or play the patents game.
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:20] <exec> 08└─That's really a shame you couldn't find the proof. Even though you're probably (okay, almost definitely) misrepresenting what it is, it still would have been interesting.
[23:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Love is Not an Ingredient - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:56] <exec> 08└─No TMB is just taking a break since last being outed for his AC behavior.
[23:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:54] <exec> 08└─You should expand your information sources beyond USA's Lamestream Media. Take a look at how things work in northern Europe, for example. Why Denmark Is So Happy (The Nordic Economic Model Makes Sense) by George Lakey [wagingnonviolence.org] Capitalism ...is an ownership model. Socialism ...is an ow...
[23:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Awards No-Bid, Multimillion-Dollar, Fraud-Prevention Contract to... Equifax - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:56] <exec> 08└─Regulation is a stop-gap measure, but Prof. Piketty says that Oligarchy is a natural result of Capitalism. The Too-big-to-fail / All-your-small-operations-eventually-belong-to-us thing seems to be a certain result of Capitalism/Oligarchy. The flick "Rollerball" described this back in 1975. -- Origin...
[23:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:09] <exec> 08└─Such supermassive binary black holes are already emitting very low frequency gravitational waves as they orbit each other, of the order of nanohertz. The wavelength of such very low frequency waves is something of the order of 32 light-years, much too low-frequency to be detected by something like L...
[23:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Double: Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:10] <exec> 08└─What is a gravitational wave? It's a periodic rippling of the fabric of spacetime itself. That's the mechanism. It will cause objects to stretch and shrink as the wave propagates by an amount determined by the wave's amplitude. As the wave propagates through the universe the amplitude goes down and...
[23:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:08] <exec> 08└─When you solve the problem of human language development page me, I'll have a bridge you can buy with all the billions you'll be getting!
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did Life on Earth Start Due to Meteorites Splashing Into Warm Little Ponds? - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─OK, let's assume that life began elsewhere and hitchhiked to Earth. How did that life start? The question doesn't go away by simply offshoring it. For my money, I care less about which planet the warm pool existed on and more about whether combining the right set of elements under the right set of c...
[23:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Bugs Train Insects to Be Helpers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome [wikipedia.org] (I've felt it at least a few times.)
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